Earth System Science III Lab (ES 106 L) Syllabus—Spring 2011 Western Oregon University Instructor: Karen Brown Office: Natural Science 213 Phone: (503) 838-8265 Office Hours: Tu/Th 9:15-11:00 AM, Wed 10:00-11:30 AM www.wou.edu/~brownk Email: [email protected] or by appointment When sending email, in the subject of the email please reference this class: i.e. “ES 106 Lab, Friday 1 PM”, to receive a prompt reply 0 Credit Hours—Your grade in ES 106 lab will comprise 25% of your ES 106 course grade, assigned by your lecture instructor. I will report your lab grade as a percentage to your lecture instructor, to be included as part of your lecture grade. You will NOT receive a passing grade in ES 106 if you do not achieve at least 60% in lab. ES 106 lab is a two hour period. We meet in NS 017. Class meetings are (circle yours) Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 11:00 to 12:50 1:00 to 2:50 PM 4:00 to 5:50 PM 1:00 to 2:50 PM Attend at THIS time, unless you have unusual circumstances and have approval from both instructors to attend at another time!! A schedule is available on my lab website. If you will regularly attend a different class, have that instructor add you to their roll. Textbooks and materials Earth System Science III (ES 106), Lab Manual, Available at WOU Bookstore. You must have an unused copy of the lab manual. Bring entire manual to each class. Scientific calculator (that can calculate trig functions). Bring this to each class. Earth Science 12th Ed., by Edward J. Tarbuck and Frederick K. Lutgens, 2009, Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, New Jersey, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-602007-3. Bring to lab. Conceptual Physical Science, 4th ed., by Hewitt, Suchocki and Hewitt, 2008, Pearson Education, San Francisco, ISBN 13-978-0-321-51695-4. Grading There are seven lab exercises and one quiz for this lab class. This lab will be valued at 100 points. Prelab homework, class activities, and the post labs are worth a total of 70 points. The practical quiz at the end of the term is worth 30 points. Prelab homework: Please read through the lab exercise before coming to class. Each lab exercise has pre-lab questions. These need to be turned in at the beginning of class. The purpose of these questions is to introduce the topic to you before coming to class. Each set of pre-lab questions will be worth 2 points. Lab activities are due at the end of the class period. Answer all the parts of the lab assigned, even if you do not need to turn in that page. (Questions on the practical quiz may come from any part of the lab, so make sure your reports are complete.) Each lab activity report will have a value of 6 points for the activities and 2 points for the postlab questions. The postlab questions may be due at the end of class, or the start of the next class meeting. Check with the instructor about when it is due before you leave.ES 106: Earth System Science III Lab Syllabus—Spring 2011 page 2 Correct answers to the lab exercises and pre-labs will be posted in Moodle http://online.wou.edu by Monday morning of the week after you complete the lab. Be sure to check your lab against this key when your paper is returned to you. There will be no credit for late work in this class. If you have to miss your regular class, try to get in to another lab that week to do the activities, because there is little opportunity to do them after they are put away on Thursday afternoon. Have the other instructor sign the lab, and turn it in to my office as soon as you finish the activities. It is due on the day you complete it. Do not turn it in to the other instructor or keep it until the following week. You are encouraged to work in lab-groups on the lab exercises. You may learn more by helping your lab partners. If you are the recipient of help, be sure you understand the problem and the solution/answer, so you can do similar problems on the practical quiz at the end of the term. Do not cite “human error”: specify the source of that error. Always show all calculations, with units, in each instance you need to do calculations. Practical quiz: There will be a practical quiz at the end of the term. The date is before Memorial Day, and is the last lab class day of the term, not during finals week. The quiz will include material from all of the labs completed during the term. It will be comprehensive. The quiz problems will be like questions and activities done on the lab exercises. You will be able to use your lab notebook as reference during the quiz, so be sure to bring your notebook on quiz day. Be sure you go to the web page for my ES 106 lab to correct your labs with the right responses to the questions. If you missed a lab, fill out the activities from the website key. You may not use printed keys or share lab reports for the lab quiz; only your own handwritten work is allowed. You must take this quiz, not another instructor’s quiz. If you are not here for your quiz day, have written verification of your emergency situation when you ask for consideration to make up the quiz. The practical quiz will be an individual effort, without the assistance of your lab partners. It is worth 30 points. Tentative Schedule March 28-April 1 None (ES 100 labs start second week of classes) April 4-8 Lab 1 Properties of WaterApril 11-15 Lab 2 Heat and TemperatureApril 19-22 Lab 3 Introduction to OceanographyApril 25-29 Lab 4 The Ocean FloorMay 2-6 Lab 5 Earth-Sun Relations, Atmospheric Heating May 9-13 Lab 6 Moisture in the AtmosphereMay 16-20 Lab 7 Weather—Oregon ClimateMay 23-26 QUIZ Bring a scantron, your lab notebook and a calculator! If you are having problems attending class, contact me as soon as practicable. If you know ahead of time that you will not be in class for the quiz, contact me before the quiz to make some arrangements. If you miss the quiz without prior notice, please have some written evidence of your emergency situation, or use the Office of Student Affairs to communicate. I am understanding, but need verification of each case. If you find yourself unable to complete this class, due to personal circumstances, you may request a grade report of ‘incomplete’. You must be passing when you request this; you must go through Office of Student Affairs to verify your situation; and you must sign a plan of completion with me. See page 20 of the WOU 2010-11 Catalog for details.Below is some
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